By Olivia Wynkoop
(SAN FRANCISCO) Life in San Francisco is beginning to revert back to normalcy as COVID-19 cases decline. But some San Francisco residents want to keep one policy that initiated at the beginning of the pandemic: slow streets, and specifically, keeping the Great Highway along Ocean Beach open for pedestrians and bikers only.
On Sunday, a few hundred people rallied at the four-lane Great Highway to keep the road closed to cars for good.
“So much life is happening out here in this space. It’s 2021, a hundred years after this road was first built. It’s time to come together and envision a new future for this space,” Heidi Moseson, an organizer for the Great Highway Park Initiative, told 5 KPIX.
The initiative hopes to turn the highway into a park. But others argue that the cars have only been concentrated into other residential streets.
“Well, this is a highway, it’s called the Great Highway,” Stephanie Teel, one resident who wants it to reopen, told 5 KPIX. “So, that should be used for cars, like the Golden Gate Bridge is used for cars. You’re not going to make a park out of the Golden Gate Bridge.”
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